PROJECT FILES FOR:

Moderation or Strategy? Political Giving by Corporations and Trade Groups
	Sebastian Thieme

Please contact Sebastian Thieme at <sthieme@princeton.edu> if you have any
problems with or questions about these replication files.

March 5, 2019


INSTRUCTIONS
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The file replication_code_article.R summarizes the estimates to replicate
the figures and results in the article. It relies on the RData file
ST19_JOP_replication.Rdata.

The file replication_code_appendix.R replicates the results in the
online appendix. The code is organized to allow replication by section.
The code relies on the following RData files:

ST19_JOP_replication.RData,
ST19_JOP_replication_B5H1.RData,
ST19_JOP_replication_C2.RData,
ST19_JOP_replication_C2_ia.Rdata,
ST19_JOP_replication_C2_ne.Rdata,
ST19_JOP_replication_C2_wi.Rdata,
ST19_JOP_replication_C2_nocip2020.Rdata,
ST19_JOP_replication_C2_cip2020.Rdata,
ST19_JOP_replication_C2_cip920.Rdata,
ST19_JOP_replication_all_npat_only.Rdata,
ST19_JOP_replication_all_sig_only.RData,
ST19_JOP_replication_CIP_asm.RData,
ST19_JOP_replication_H2.RData,
ST19_JOP_replication_H3.RData,
ST19_JOP_replication_H4_2.RData,
ST19_JOP_replication_H5.RData.



The file ST19_JOP_replication_4_2.RData contains datasets from the following source:

National Institute for Money in State Politics. 2018. Names of Registered Lobbyists/Clients. (https://www.followthemoney.org.)

- 2002-2016 data of contributions to candidates in Iowa, Nebraska, and Wisconsin


The file ST19_JOP_replication_H5.RData contains datasets from the following sources:

Bonica, Adam. 2016. Database on Ideology, Money in Politics, and Elections:
Public Version 2.0 [Computer File]. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Libraries.
http://data.stanford.edu/dime (accessed November 25, 2017).

- Contributor and Recipient datasets

National Institute for Money in State Politics. 2018. Names of Registered Lobbyists/Clients. (https://www.followthemoney.org.)

- 2016 clients

Shor, Boris, and Nolan McCarty. 2018. Individual State Legislator Shor-McCarty 
Ideology Data, May 2018 update [Computer file]. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Dataverse, V2. https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/6QWX7Q (accessed June 8, 2018). 

- individual legislator data



	